[Dixielandjazz] applause and Bud Freeman

[Robert Ringwald]

I completely agree with Ken on his statement below. That is why I mentioned 
the Jammin' At Condon album. While Eddie isn't on that recording, Bud and 
Dick are and as ken says, they never get in anyone's way. In fact they add 
emensly to the recording.

We have some recordings of the great ones. But did you ever stop to think 
about the thousands of hours of great music that they played night after 
night that was never recorded and is lost forever?

-Bob Ringwald


-----Original Message----- 
From: Ken Mathieson
Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2015 1:37 PM
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com ; Robert Ringwald
Subject: Re: applause and Bud Freeman

Hi Folks,

Bob wrote inter alia:
>snip

IMHO: A tenor sax can muddy things up in the front line if he and the other
musicians are not of top quality. In the case of tenor sax players such as
Bud Freeman and Eddie Miller, they know what they are doing. They know their
place musically in a Dixieland style. They never muddy the waters.
< snip

It wasn't just tenor players who were adept at not cluttering ensembles: 
Loads of wonderful Condon sessions involved 6-piece Dixie front lines which 
included both Bud on tenor AND Dick Cary on Eb horn and yet, by some magic 
and a great deal of discretion from all the horns, the overall sound isn't 
cluttered. Indeed Dick's contributions seem all the more remarkable when you 
consider the trombone and Eb Horn have similar sounds and occupy the same 
register, yet Dick and Cutty or Lou somehow managed to keep out of each 
other's way and their individual ensemble lines are easy to follow.

Cheers,

Ken Mathieson